Family and friends gathered in Chatham, Ont. on Saturday to say good-bye to a man killed in Mexico in what has been described as a hit-and-run accident.

Clifford Glasier was laid to rest while his wife, who was severely injured in the same incident, recovered in a London hospital bed.

Glasier and his wife Janette Lerch were on vacation near Lake Chapala, Mexico when the couple was struck by a car while crossing a street. They were walking back to their rented house after dinner when the collision occurred.

Mexican police said there were no witnesses and the driver left the scene.

The couple had arrived in the Chapala area on Jan. 2 and planned to stay there until April.

Glasier, 67, was killed at the scene. Lerch, 54, was taken to a Guadalajara, Mexico hospital suffering from head injuries and broken bones in her pelvis, leg and shoulder. She was placed in a medically induced coma to prevent swelling in her brain.

Earlier this week, Lerch was flown to London on an air-ambulance flight from Mexico. She was brought to Victoria Hospital where her condition has reportedly been improving. On Thursday, her condition was upgraded from "serious" to "fair."

Glasier was the fourth Canadian killed in Mexico in the last 11 months.

Just a few days after the couple arrived in Mexico, a Woodbridge, Ont. teen on vacation in Acapulco, Mexico died outside a nightclub in what local police called a hit-and-run.

But those claims were disputed by his travelling companion Marco Calabro, who said Adam DePrisco, 19, was brutally beaten after dancing with a local man's girlfriend.

Family members urged the Canadian government to pressure Mexican officials to do a thorough investigation, believing DePrisco's death was being covered up to protect Acapulco's tourism industry.

In February of 2006, Domenic and Nancy Ianiero were found dead in their room at a Cancun, Mexico resort. The couple, who had travelled to the country with family members for their daughter's wedding, had their throats cut in a gruesome double homicide.

Mexican officials have been criticized by the Ianiero family and their lawyer, Eddie Greenspan, for what they call a botched investigation that has failed to lay charges against anyone.